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           Liber B. take Phisick, when this Deponent opened the box She found

               the Smell of the Pills Soe Strong that it had almost overcome

               her and told him plainly that She could not take them out,

               thereupon he had her goe out and Shutt the doors when She

               came in again She found Susan Warren wonderfully Sick and

               the Capt well, and did Several times See this Susan Warren

               upon the Close Stool purgeing very Strongly but Capt Mitchell

               pretended and Said that it was he that took the Phisick but

               that it wrought not well with him, and to make a Shew he put

               a Napkin or Towell about his neck and laid a Pillow upon a

               Stoole, and when any came in he would lye down upon the

               pillow as though it had been he that took the Phisick, after-

               wards when the heat and Spring of the year came this Susanna

               Warren break forth all into boyles and Blaynes her whole

               body being Scurfie, and the hair of her head almost all fallen

               off, this is all the Depont Saith to that particular of Phisick,

               ffurther this Depont maketh oath, that She heard Capt Mitchell

               Say often to Susan Warren that if she then were or hereafter

               Should be with Child in the Countrey he would hire an Old

           p. 321   Maid in Chichester and bring her into this Countrey along

               with him which maid as he Said could help her on Such occa-

               sion and floe body Should know it ffurther this Depont Saith

               not for the present

                                     J urat coram Robert Brooke

                        The Deposition of WilIliam Ham sted aged 23

                        years or thereabouts Sworn & examd the day

                        Janry 1651 Saith

                That he heard Capt Mitchell at Deale being upon his voyage

               hither tell Mrs Mitchell his wife that Mrs Warren whome he then

               called Betty Williams, had Sent aboard a Cartload of goods

               and Servants named Marke Webb which goods this Deponent

               conceiveth to be the goods now claimed by the Complt Mr

               Smith in regard he hath often heard the Said Mrs Warren

               term the Said goods hers which were challenged by the Said

               Complaynt her ffather and for that the Said Capt Mitchell

               appeared to be unwilling it Should be known that the Said

               Mr Smith was ffather to the Said Mrs Warren whome he called

               Sister and forbade this Depont aboard the Ship in his voyage

               hither to make it known that She was the Complt daughter

               Saying it would be a disparagemt to him the Said Capt Mitchell

               or to that effect, and further Saith that at Portsmouth upon

               their Voyage hither he Saw the Said Mrs Warren pay or

               deliver to Capt Mitchell Six pounds ten Shillings to pay for

               her own passage, and further also Saith, that he heard Capt

               Mitchell Say that he could not have come this Voyage hither

               if he had not borrowed five hundred pounds of the Said Mrs